This Curious Find comes from Reader Derek Mottershead. He writes: Ammianus Marcellinus (above) lived in the fourth century AD andContinue Reading
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
Manuscript collection containing documents relating to Ottoman-Dutch relations including correspondence between Leiden orientalist Jacobus Golius and Nicolas of Aleppo.
To mark the festival of Purim, Zsofia Buda discusses our recently digitised collection of Esther scrolls.
I joined the Special Collections team in March as part of an exciting new project to catalogue and promote engagementContinue Reading
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Messages we can relate to today. Many women during WW1 were Key Workers, hard at work in urban and rural settings keeping the infrastructure going and enhancing societal living conditions.
Following on from her previous post Sara D’Amico has another discovery to share. The David Lloyd Roberts Collection is mostlyContinue Reading
Turning to leave one of our manuscript storage areas I saw a box labelled Small Russian Manuscripts. Curious – IContinue Reading
Dr Janette Martin, curator of our current exhibition Peterloo: Manchester’s Fight for Freedom, writes: The spring and summer of 1819Continue Reading
Today’s Curious Find is a book of real letters that reveal the love story between a man and woman, andContinue Reading
